Angustifolia Quotes & Sayings

But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites. — Junius Williams

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow. — Cesare Pavese

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for. — Audrey Hepburn

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen. — Jim Parrack

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. — David Hare

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS. — Christine O'Donnell

I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that. — Judy Greer

How was I supposed to tell my Seth where I was when I had nothing but freaking trees- — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I know how important it is to have a helping hand. — Arsene Wenger

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after. — Rebecca Solnit

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for." — Winston Churchill

People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move. — Arthur Gordon Webster

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state. — David Cameron

Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 ) — Michael Zadoorian